Classification Committee Report
The classification committee has spent the past several months learning, reviewing and updating the Job Merging Powerpoint and workshop information. All committee members are ready to present this workshop to any campus, and since we have committee members in all parts of the state we are able to do this with limited travel expense. At our Senior LRRs request, This information was presented to the LMC on compensation at the Chancellor’s office.
In conjunction and with the knowledge and expertise of our VP for Organizing, the presentation was given to over 150 attendees at simultaneous locations via the use of Elluminate Live and placed on the CSUEU web site for the benefit of our members.
With the arrival of layoffs, job merging and the position description workshop have become even more crucial and we have decided to “dust off” the Writing your position description workshop to educate our members and make sure they are classified correctly. We hope to be able to do more presentations via the Elluminate Live or webinar software and record them for placement on the website. This use of technology will make it possible to reach the largest number of our members without excessive travel or leave costs to our organization.
The Unit 7 representative from San Francisco recently contacted us after the most recent webinar and we discovered that SF State is the poster child for job merging and not using the proper classifications for our employees. Their improper classifying of our employees is an egregious and blatant disregard for the classification standards. It was discussed and we determined that the best course of action was to form a task force of both the classification committee in conjunction with the stewards at SF State and together we plan to request and review the position descriptions and classification standards for all our represented employees at that campus.
Respectfully Submitted,
Nancy Kobata